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Any World of Warcraft / Wine successes with 8.42.3?

10-28-2007, 03:24 PM

Previous versions of fglrx ran World of Warcraft's login screens fine, but then crashed when I tried to enter the Realm. However, 8.42.3 just gives me a blank black window and nothing else (apart from music...).

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Oh I realize that having AIGLX and Composite may not make a difference at all I just did it at the same time that I disabled vertex shaders in wow. When vertex shaders are enabled it doesn't work right.

Once I reinstalled wine It was like half the game would render and I could log in and only see certain graphics like the menu. If was from there that I disabled vertex shaders logged out and it started working. You may need to fine the code that disables vertex shaders in the config.wtf file as I don't know what it is.

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Previous versions of fglrx ran World of Warcraft's login screens fine, but then crashed when I tried to enter the Realm. However, 8.42.3 just gives me a blank black window and nothing else (apart from music...).

Does anyone have any Warcraft success stories to share, please?

You need to edit the wine register

Registry Tweak for FPS Boost

Open a terminal window, (konsole/terminal/x terminal etc..), type regedit and press enter. This will start the Wine equivalent of the windows registry editor. If you are familiar with using the registry editor under windows then this is pretty much the same.

1. Find HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\
2. Highlight the wine folder in the left hand pane by left clicking on it. The icon should change to an open folder.
3. Click right on the wine folder and select [NEW] then [KEY].
4. Replace the text "New Key #1" with OpenGL (CaSe Sensitive).
5. Right click in the right hand pane and select [NEW] then [String Value].
6. Replace "New Value #1" with "DisabledExtensions" (CaSe sensitive).
7. Then double click anywhere on the line, a dialog box will open.
8. In the value field type "GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object" (without the quotes).

Note: If you are unable to rename the newly created key "New Key #1" to "OpenGL" then expand the left hand pane of the regedit window using the vertical divider bar. You should now be able to change it. A known bug in Wine is causing this unwanted behavior.

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Oh I realize that having AIGLX and Composite may not make a difference at all I just did it at the same time that I disabled vertex shaders in wow. When vertex shaders are enabled it doesn't work right.

So I get a completely black screen if I have

SET pixelShaders "1"

and I get a corrupt / incompletely rendered screen if I have

SET M2UseShaders "1"

However, I can at least use

SET M2UsePixelShaders "1"

The game is also refusing to run for me in D3D mode, and I've needed to disable the GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_objects extension for OpenGL mode via the Wine registry.